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Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Spotify hits 300 million paid subscribers.

It’s the first company to reach the audio streaming milestone, showing 9 precent year-over-year growth in premium subscribers. Monthly active users climbed to 777 million, up 12 percent since the same quarter last year.

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

The era of AI-powered search has made Reddit mentions highly valuable. Subreddit moderators are catching brands trying to take advantage.

Mia Sato
Robert Hart
Robert Hart
15 AGs tell OpenAI to preserve records on Hugging Face hack.

In a letter to CEO Sam Altman, a coalition of red-state attorneys general demanded the company retain information and halt risky cybersecurity testing after an AI agent escaped confinement and went on a hacking spree during testing. “OpenAI’s inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products poses an imminent risk of substantial harm to our States,” the AGs wrote.

The request comes as the White House reportedly briefs tech leaders on a voluntary model testing framework.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
EchoStar’s Hughesnet falls victim to Starlink.

The original satellite internet company “for rural America” has filed for bankruptcy after running out of cash and hemorrhaging subscribers to SpaceX. The service will continue to operate during proceedings, but will pivot away from consumers to focus on businesses and governments. It follows EchoStar’s Dish filing for chapter 11 protection in June.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
TikTok privately settles three more teen addiction cases.

Only 3,300 more lawsuits to go, all filed by minors claiming that TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat were designed to be addictive, resulting in harm to their mental health. The plaintiffs’ claims against Meta, Google, and Snap are still on track for a bellwether trial in October. The first case to reach trial resulted in a $4.2 million verdict against Meta and $1.8 million against Google.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Amazon is now worth over three Elon Musks.

AMZN surpassed $3 trillion in market value for the first time on the strength of accelerating cloud-computing revenue. It joins only Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple in ever reaching the milestone. It first crossed the $1 trillion mark in 2018.

David Imel
David Imel
Telegram briefly vanished from Apple’s App Store.

After a few hours, the app reappeared around 10:45PM ET. Apple issued the following statement:

We briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after our review found content that violates our strict guidelines prohibiting child sexual abuse material. The app was subsequently restored after the developer promptly removed the content and banned the user who posted it.

Telegram, in response:

I’m sure this stance will be applied equally to all other apps in the store, in the future right?

Update: Added Apple and Telegram statements.

The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation

Game Freak’s new action game is full of ideas you’ve seen and played before.

Andrew Webster
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The White House will brief AI companies about its model testing framework on Tuesday.

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are all expected to attend the meeting, CNBC reports.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Who needs IMAX when you have iMacs?